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A  [House.] 

HOUSE,  February  17th,  1863.     Ordered  U  be  printed  and  laid  on 
the  table. 
[By  Mr.  Gaitker.] 


RESOLXJTIO]srS 

VINDICATING  THE  LOYALTY  OF  THE  STATE  OF  NORTH 
CAROLINA  AND  ITS  GENERAL   ASSEMBLY. 

Whereas,  various  slanderous  report?  have  been  circulated  both  in 
the  State  and  out  of  it,  reflecting  upon  the  loyalty  of  the  meinb 
this  Legislature  and  the  people  of  this  State,  and  ascribing  to  them 
hostility  to* the  Confederate  Government,  and  a  desire  to  reconstruct 
the  Union  ;   therefore, 

Be  it  unanimously  ;.  That  as  the  representatives  of  the  people, 

and  iirour  own  behalf  as  individual  citizen?  of  the  State,  we  protest 
against  and  denounce  these  accusations  as  utterly  false  in  letter  and  in 
spirit,  as  calculated  to  misrepresent  the  sentiments  of  those  who  have 
never  faltered  in  the  support  of  all  constitutional  measures  for  the 
prosecution  of  the  war,  and  as  tending  to  produce  jealousies  and 
heartburnings  among  a  people  who  have  sealed  their  devotion  to  the 
Independence  with  their  blood,  upon  the  proudest 
-fields  of  the  revolution;   that  the  charge  of  ire  <m  the 

if  this  Legislature,  or  any  portion  of  it,  to  conllict  with  the 
federate  Government,  or  to  embarrass  the   President  in  the   pi 
tion  of  the  war.  i  I  and  slanderous;  that  we 

hereby  pledge  ourselves   most   heartily  and   emphatically  10  the 
vigorous  constitutional  war  policy,  promising,  in  the  name  of  IS 
Carolina,  the  most  liberal  contribution  of  men  and  money  to  th 
port  of  it,  and  protesting  against  any  settlement  of  the  Struggle  which 

not  secure  the  entire  independence  of  the  Confederate 
America. 

Resolved,  That  the  Governor  be   requested  to  communicate  a  copy 
of  these   resolutions   to  the   Governors   of  the  several   States  of  the 
Confederacy,  and   also  to  our  own   Senators    and  Representative 
Congress,  to  be  laid  before  their  respective  bodies. 

[Read  and  ratified  in  General  Assembly,  this  30th  day  of  January, 
A.  D.,  1863.] 

R.  S.  DONNELL,  S.  11.  C 
R.  W.  LASSITER,  S.  S.  pro  I 


STATE  OF  NORTH  CAROLINA,  > 
Office  of  Secretary  of  State.      ) 

I,  JOHN  P.  II.  feUSS,  Secretary  of  State,  in  and  for  the  State  of 
North  Carolina,  do  hereby  certify  that  the  foregoing  is,  a  true  copy  of 
the  orignal  on  file  in  this  office. 

Given  under  my  hand,  this  11th  day  of  February.  1863. 

JOHN  P.  II.  RUSS, 

Secretary  of  State. 


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